Amazon . Technology

Agent-assisted Java 8/11 to 17 upgrades

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Amazon has migrated tens of thousands of production applications from Java 8 or 11 to Java 17 with assistance from Amazon Q Developer.From the source, 2026-10-17 (source shows no clear date; this is when we checked it)

What happened

Amazon used the Amazon Q Developer agent for code transformation to upgrade its own applications from Java 8 or 11 to Java 17. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company had migrated tens of thousands of production applications this way. AWS estimated the work saved at over 4,500 years of development time, with $260 million in annual cost savings from performance improvements.

Sources

Amazon Q Developer just reached a $260 million dollar milestone (AWS)

Company: Amazon
Industry: Technology
Vendor / platform: Amazon Q Developer (in-house)
Type: Coding agent
Status: Scaled
Evidence date: 2026-10-17 (source shows no clear date; this is when we checked it)
Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/amazon-q-developer-just-reached-a-260-million-dollar-milestone/
Last checked: 2026-10-17

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